We had the first snow fall.
(She won't step on grass, leaves, dirt, or sand. What makes you think she would step in snow?)
(She also likes to run away naked.)

Learned how to put on pants.
But due to its highly labour intensive nature, we had to take several breaks.

We put up the Christmas tree.
Yes, in November.
She loves it - especially the twinkly lights.
It's a lighting ceremony at our house everyday.
"3, 2, 1..."
"wooooooow"
18 month olds are awesome.

The ornament bandit has not been as much of a repeat offender as I anticipated.
But our tree is still trimmed ombre style...

And last but not least, in fact, the highlight of my November (but she'd probably disagree):
we met Santa.

Classic.
This was the first of four shots that got progressively more desperate.
The entire mall heard my child screaming
"MAMAAAAAAA"
"AAAHHHHHHHHHH"
"MAMAAAAAAA"
as I smiled and waved at her.
I'll take that mother of the year award now, thanks.

Saturday, 17 August 2013

The kind of week where the neighbour's dog wakes up Bean in the middle of the night,
and 5min after she's finally gone back down, the (false) fire alarm goes off for 20min
and it takes me the next 2hrs to put her back to sleep.

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

I just skip the buzz, the flush, all of it, and head straight to the best part.

But I digress.

We went back to the zoo this weekend.

I hoped that it wouldn't be too busy, since I imagined everyone out of town, at their cottages.

I was wrong.

All of the like-minded cottage-less people decided to go see some pandas too.

"what are we looking at?"

Pointing at the pandas.

Or maybe at all of the people who are blocking her view of the pandas.

(I feel the latter, based on that pout...)

You have to wonder where she gets that expression from.

D.I.V.A.

Checking out the giraffes.

And the elephants.
It was even better than the first timebecause she was even more alert and aware, and was super excitedly pointing at all the animals.
She even went on the merry-go-round. Which if you saw my Instagram video,
was about the best $3 we have ever spent.

Blowing me kisses. I die.

I know this is turning into a total photo dump, but two more.

Because on the way back to the car, I took one of my favourite shots as of late (and maybe ever).